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By who, and for what reason?
by GordonS 2y ago
By who, and for what reason?
- Alupis 2y agoI don't know what the parent comment was referring to, however it's notable how brittle society actually is. Society only works when people generally play by the same rules, ie. "The Social Contract". When people stop adhering to the contract, chaos happens and society rots or crumbles. There's a plethora of recent examples of this - including mass riots, mass looting and mass shoplifting. Society doesn't have an automatic and efficient way to deal with people who collectively decided societal rules don't apply to them. For some people, chaos is a means to an end. Tear down the things you don't like in society by literally breaking them.
- beaglesss 2y agoI would argue there are some baseline ones to follow, mostly revolving around consent, property rights, and violence. Fortunately even other apes generally understand these instinctually at some level so it's baked in well enough it won't completely break down, with various asterisks attached. If we all stopped paying taxes and started smoking weed we would probably manage somehow. On the other hand if everyone becomes an arsonist we'd have real problems.
- pvaldes 2y agoDunno, but when somebody spends a lot of resources and time to assure that wildfires happen, there is something to gain in their minds. Poor people don't spend their scarce precious money so randomly. My first question would be: Can they find a link between this people and Gary Stephen Maynard? I assume that the answer will be not (or not evident) but, the `modus operandi` is very similar and both attacks fall in USA election years, so we see the same patterns repeating again (as expected). This has happened before. My second question would be: provoked fires happen more often, less often or are equally distributed between blue and red states?